Overview
- First book on insurance and human rights
- Covers various parts of the world, with a particular focus on Europe and North-America
- Written by both legal practitioners and legal scholars from across the globe
Part of the book series: AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation (ERSILR, volume 5)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Insurance and the Right to Equal Treatment
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Insurance and the Right to Health
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Insurance and the Right to Life
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About this book
National, supranational and international legal instruments regulating the taking-up and pursuit of the business of insurance and reinsurance, (re)insurance distribution and the insurance contract often refer to or impact on human or fundamental rights. Courts are often faced with the sometimes seemingly impossible task of reconciling insurance core principles, practices and mind-sets with the principles and values stemming from human rights protection. In some cases, such as that of discrimination in insurance, this discussion has been going on for decades. Some deal with hot topics which have more recently emerged in light of developments stemming from technologic innovations (‘InsurTech’).
The first part of the book focuses on insurance and the right to equal treatment. Discrimination on the basis of factors such as gender or age is tackled, from the perspectives of the European Union, Canada and South Africa. The second part of the book highlights the very relevant role played by insurance in the upholding of the right to health, covering the United States of America, Africa and Brazil. The third part of the book explores InsurTech's manifold challenges upon the right to privacy, focusing on European Union. The fourth part tackles the threat posed by insurance on the right to life in general, but with a particular focus on the United Kingdom.
Written by legal scholars and practitioners, the book offers international, comparative and regional or national perspectives, aiming to contribute to a more thorough and systematic understanding of the interactions between these two very different fields of law, providing the industry as well as the scientific community with insights from both sides of this seemingly difficult to transpose divide.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor Birgit Kuschke, University of Pretoria, Faculty of Law, Pretoria, South Africa
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Insurance and Human Rights
Editors: Margarida Lima Rego, Birgit Kuschke
Series Title: AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82704-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82703-8Published: 16 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82706-9Published: 17 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82704-5Published: 15 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-1770
Series E-ISSN: 2662-1789
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 262
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Human Rights, Financial Services, European Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, Big Data, European Economic Law